Italian Furniture Thoughts from the Field

If your average picture is worth a thousand words (give or take), then this beautiful single table leg (1/4 of a full table picture) must be worth just about the number of words I was hoping to write today. It was shown at last months Milan furniture fair, and is from an Italian supplier (Riva1920)

The mood around the showroom was lifted earlier this week when interior designer (and friend) Michael Rabatin wrote to tell us how the Gino Vanni Orchidea (GV1149) round dining table had become a new favorite of his. After specifying similar versions of this beautiful round Italian dining table both

Recently I’ve had the pleasure of working with two different clients — one a designer, the other not — as the connector & enabler in a long-distance collaboration between client and Italian craftsman. For these two projects, the client came to us with a challenge: make something “like this” — genera

“How long will it take to get our new table?” is generally one of the first questions clients ask us once they’re ready to order a new Italian dining table. The short/easy answer is usually “around 12-16 weeks”. But the real answer is something I’ve had the chance to reflect on a lot this week, [...

One of my favorite events of the year is the annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile, taking place next week in Milan. It’s a truly overwhelming display of Italian furniture, with over 1200 exhibitors (the great majority of which are Italian), and close to 300,000 visitors spread out over more than

Now that I’m finally sifting through some of the photos and videos from my last trip to Italy, it seemed like a good time to share a bit more about one of the wonderful Italian family businesses with whom we work… Tucked in the Tuscan hills in the region around the Era river (Val d’Era) — [...]

Any client casually perusing our website can easily recognize that we can deliver on our promise to bring beautiful, classic Italian furniture to an American audience — affordably and with great customer service. What’s perhaps less apparent is what it means to have furniture lovingly made-to-order,

To some people, the words “Italian design” conjure classical images — handcrafted wood furniture, accented in gold and produced using traditional techniques employed for generations; to others, the same words conjure images of the ultra-modern — modern fashion, modern styling, and modern materials.

After a brief stop in Paris to see the Maison+Objet home show, I was fortunate enough to spend last week touring/meeting/spending time with several of our best suppliers Italy. I saw a ton of great furniture (more to share soon), and was greeted everywhere by incredible hospitality. One of the thing

Valdera Export, our hand-picked producer of modern Italian marble dining room tables, is nestled in the Tuscan hills, not far from Pisa. Driving up to their facility on my last visit there, I was struck not only by the beauty of Tuscany, but also the beauty of the natural stone itself. Seeing so muc